Vanilla & raspberry cheesecake
Hello! Here's a really easy cheesecake recipe that I wanted to share.
I used a big cake tin to make it in, as I didn't have a flan dish. This is a no bake recipe, so you could use any dish you wanted. I think individual jars would be really cute.
Ingredients:
12 digestive biscuits
125g butter
200g philadelphia cheese
85g icing sugar
300mls double cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
Some raspberries
Start by crushing up the biscuits - a fun way to do this is by putting the biscuits in a sandwich bag and bashing them with a rolling pin (very satisfying). Then melt the butter and mix the two together.
Line the bottom of your tin (cake pan) with the mixture. Really squish it down and fill in all gaps. Pop in the fridge while you prepare the rest of the mixture.
Mix together the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla extract. Make sure it's nice and smooth.
Whip the cream, and then fold it into the cream cheese/sugar mixture.
Now get the tin from the fridge, and add the mixture on top of the biscuit base. Smooth over using a spatula to get it as even and flat as possible. At this stage you could just pop it in the fridge and have a nice vanilla cheesecake, but I wanted to use raspberries.
First I squished them through a sieve, to get the juice. Then added icing sugar, plus a wee bit of whipped cream (just a spoon or so that I scraped from the bowl) to thicken it up. I just made it up as I went along really - I just wanted it to be thick enough that it wouldn't go EVERYWHERE when poured on top.
Spoon onto the cheesecake in whatever style works for you (I went for splodgy, but it would look lovely and smart with the raspberry syrup all over the top). Add raspberries to decorate and put in the fridge to chill.
There's step by step photos on my blog too.
I used a big cake tin to make it in, as I didn't have a flan dish. This is a no bake recipe, so you could use any dish you wanted. I think individual jars would be really cute.
Ingredients:
12 digestive biscuits
125g butter
200g philadelphia cheese
85g icing sugar
300mls double cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
Some raspberries
Start by crushing up the biscuits - a fun way to do this is by putting the biscuits in a sandwich bag and bashing them with a rolling pin (very satisfying). Then melt the butter and mix the two together.
Line the bottom of your tin (cake pan) with the mixture. Really squish it down and fill in all gaps. Pop in the fridge while you prepare the rest of the mixture.
Mix together the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla extract. Make sure it's nice and smooth.
Whip the cream, and then fold it into the cream cheese/sugar mixture.
Now get the tin from the fridge, and add the mixture on top of the biscuit base. Smooth over using a spatula to get it as even and flat as possible. At this stage you could just pop it in the fridge and have a nice vanilla cheesecake, but I wanted to use raspberries.
First I squished them through a sieve, to get the juice. Then added icing sugar, plus a wee bit of whipped cream (just a spoon or so that I scraped from the bowl) to thicken it up. I just made it up as I went along really - I just wanted it to be thick enough that it wouldn't go EVERYWHERE when poured on top.
Spoon onto the cheesecake in whatever style works for you (I went for splodgy, but it would look lovely and smart with the raspberry syrup all over the top). Add raspberries to decorate and put in the fridge to chill.
There's step by step photos on my blog too.